Aug. 19, 2018
11:34 a.m.
2018-08-19 19:23, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Tom Lane:
I rather imagine the professor has a point. Yeah, code that uses tzdb would be easy to update. But Japan is likely chock-full of locally grown code that has never had to cope with any situation other than "JST = UTC+9", and probably hasn't got any generality whatsoever about its timestamp handling.
At last some of this code has to be touched for the new era name anyway, and *that* work is supposed to complete within a few months. (The last era transition was in 1989.)
That's for local calendar, not clocks that are fixed to local standard time.